Teresa of Avila
Christ has no body now but yours,
No hands, no feet on earth but yours.
Yours are the eyes through which he looks
With compassion on this world.
Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good;
Yours are the hands with which he blesses all the world.
Yours are the hands; yours are the feet;
Yours are the eyes; you are his body.
Christ has no body now on earth but yours.
Clement of AlexandriaThe man of God is consequently divine and is already holy. He is God-bearing and God-borne.
Clement of AlexandriaIt leads us to the endless and perfect end, teaching us beforehand the future life that we shall lead, according to God, and with gods; after we are freed from all punishment and penalty which we undergo, in consequence of our sins, for salutary discipline.
C.S. LewisIt is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree helping each other to one or the other of these destinations.